No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.

It can be really frightening for young people to see their parents fighting. Remember, you're not alone and there are people out there who can support you.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.